Am I the only one wondering how 2 disks failed at the same time? What happened? Power surge and no power strip or ups? I don't really want to point fingers, but the odds of two disks failing at the same time seems really, REALLY, freaking slim. Like if this happens to you, go out and buy a lotto ticket.
I know that this is off topic, but how the hell do I block stories on Apple? I have the box marked in my preferences, but still all these Apple stories come up. Nothing against them, I just don't care. I don't like Apple, I don't like OSX, but I don't care that others do. Please don't take this as a flame. What am I doing wrong with my preferences?? Thanks.
If anyone has ever looked into living off the grid, or trying to get most of their power from solar, wind, bicycle, whatever, you know that the key is to get appliances that use less energy. Not that hard, even given the current US President being in the pocket of the oil companies.
If I typed a word wrong or dropped some clause, I don't really need to hear about it. It doesn't make you sound smart. It makes you sound like an asshole.
Seriously. Four years from now, you will have worked your ass off putting your wife through the PhD program. Having to deal with a lot of shit and being the chief breadwinner. It'll be time for you to take a break. She's got a PhD now, so you can sit back, figure out which beer you like the best, maybe pick up some tennis or something. Trust me, you'll want a break. Then after a year or so announce that your skills are outdated and that you are going to go back and get your own PhD.
Holy Crap! It is so heartwarming to hear someone else having this nightmare with Word. I started to think that it was me. When I had that happen last, a month or so ago, I ended up saving the document as plain text, then reformatting the thing. That didn't even work so well.
Everytime I see one of these stories, I wonder why people don't use alternic. OK, not so much why they don't, just why geeks in position haven't altered their DNS's to see alternic sites. Slow, subtle and once accepted and working, people would be pissed when they couldn't reach sites they were used to seeing. I always thought that the internet was supposed to have strength due to decentralization. Oh yeah, us government needs to control everything around the world. shudder.
Ah see, there you go. Just blowing my arguments out of the water. I'll have to take your word for it, 'cause I don't have the experience to question it.
Back in the day before I ran my own server, it seems like there were always BIG notices about case sensitivity whenever I went to upload. Besides which the listing of a couple thousand files would amount to only a couple 100K at most, I'd think. Yeah, I know that doesn't scale real well, but I'm just thinking of Aunt Polly trying to edit a file that she saved before.
Still, as I said before, I like case sensitivity. If I want to name one file Afile.blah and another AFile.blah, I should be able to.
Bud, if you saw my original quote, I did mention my spotty at best skills. Or shoddy. Whatever. I thought that the discussion was about a user app, like a word processor, looking for a file name with possible mixing of upper/lower case. And sure, scratch the hash and do it on a file by file basis. Same thing. I can grep a pattern from a several thousand long file with no noticeably delay. In psuedo, do this
For each file in./* if (lowercase($guessed_name) == lowercase($file))
return $file;
It this brings your system to a grinding halt, you must be running a palm or something. I've seen a lot of stupid shit in my days doing tech support, but I have yet to see a user with even one thousand files in a directory. Even if I did, I don't think that would be even noticeable on the computer. And if it was, it's on the users. If they are so stupid to have multiple thousands of files in a directory AND they can't remember the names that they save things under, fuck 'em.
OK, I'll bite. I'm thinking user apps here. How I'd implement it, is look for the file as input. If not found, make a hash of files in the directory, translating every character in each file name to lower case (or upper, doesn't matter), change the inputted name to the same, then compare. This wouldn't be processor intensive at all. Even is the user had several hundred files in the directory, and was running an old pentium, this would be quick.
In other words, you don't compare every possible mix of upper and lower. You change the cases of the files (in the hash, not actually change the name) and the query name, then compare. Like I said, pretty trivial.
Bloat? It's like a one liner shell script. And even with my meagre C skills, I could do it in 5 lines. If people really want an app to support people who don't know the difference between upper and lower case, it would be trivial to implement.
It may be that the original subjects of ESR's essay have been lost in time. Or just that newer readers don't know and have pointed the essay at something else. Eric was basically bitching about RMS back in the day.
Hell, maybe it's been twisted with the years in my head.
We should have exchanged emails and hashed this out ourselves.
What about the consumer?
Well, that's the good of it. Unless the consumer has a morality that doesn't jibe with that of Walmart. But that is the frindge. I've read a couple reports about how major retailers like Walmart drain municipal budjects and increase the local tax burden on consumers.
Like most things, the more you look into it, the more complex the problem. I know that I'm either not bright enough, or just don't have enough time or energy to say with total conviction that Walmart is either good or bad on the balance.
At least now, you can find Britney Spears singles in Podunk, Utah.
I really want to make a sarcastic comment about this....
Having spent a few months in a small town in the midwest a couple months after a Walmart went in, I was able to see the good and the bad of it. Before the Walmart their were more opportunties for small businessmen.
OK. First, my parent's were hardly hip, modern parents. Liberal, yes, but definitely not the "cool" parents. See, as far as the music goes, and this is what the conversation was kind of about, I listened to many groups, punk, industrial and what came to be labelled goth, that my parents never listened to. They couldn't really get past the noise of it to get to the lyrics. But being raised as I was, I knew that they wouldn't have approved. But they let me have that. If I started using some of the language in daily conversations, I would have been in trouble. But I didn't.
Like the first time I heard Andrew Dice Clay. I laughed my ass off, despite that I knew it was so wrong. Probably because I knew that it was wrong. My parents wouldn't have approved of it, but it hardly turned me into a mysoginistic racist.
And yes, I was talking about censorship and Walmart. When they become effectively the only outlet for music for miles around and don't carry something (that would sell) for purely moral reasons, it comes damn close, in practical terms, to gov't censorship. But like I said, they have the right.
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He went to the annual porn convention in Las Vegas and took a bunch of pictures with different porn stars. He had the film developed at Walmart and was amazed when they didn't print out some of the pictures and left a note saying that Walmart was a family place and his business was not appreciated. We all laughed about it. This is SoCal, so the options for getting film developed, or anything else really, are many. But if they were the only place that you could get your film developed and they wouldn't do it, that would suck.
Like I said a couple times, I think that what Walmart does sucks, but they have that right. It's just a shame that people don't seem to care about having choices.
As far as Simon and Garfunkel, my parents took me and my sister to a Simon and Garfunkel concert in Germany when I was about 10 or 11. I still have great memories of that. While I did have my music, I also listened, and listen to my parents (Stones, Animals, Mamas and Papas, etc.).
I really don't think that we are disagreeing as much as you think.
Please try not to put words out of my hands. My parents would not have approved of my music, but they understood that for me to grow up I would need to start making decisions on my own. One of which is what music I listened too. As I said previously, as long as my grades were good and I wasn't getting into trouble, they gave me a great deal of leniency. It was also true that when I screwed up, I had some freedoms taken away. Hardly disinterested parenting.
But we are off the topic there. If you liked to try an array of different cheeses (after having visited more than my share of stinky cheese shops in France, pulled in against my will by my mom, I find this idea pretty funny. Sorry, I'm just smiling as I write this with those memories) but some mega cheese shop came in and put your favorite cheese shop out of business and now your choice was Cheddar, Swiss or Jack, I think that you'd be a little put out. Not that you'd say the mega cheese shop didn't have the RIGHT to do it, but you'd probably think that it was kinda fucked.
And that's pretty much all that I'm saying about Walmart. I don't think that they are good for local economies, but I don't feel that strongly about them on that level. But I don't like when they are the only game in town (or many towns around) and feel that they have the moral right to censor what local people have access to. Of course they have the legal right. But the fact that they are in a position to dictate morality and do so is pretty fucked. That's all I'm saying. Please don't bring my parenting or my parents parenting into it.
Easy kid. I'm not a teenager. I'm not even in my 20's anymore. And I have a son. It is important to me to keep an eye on what my son watches on TV and at the movies. And how long. I understand that and take the responsibility seriously. But is it a requirement that my "tastes" are the same as the little society that I happen to be stuck in?
I was lucky enough to have parents who understood that as long as I got good grades and the cops weren't knocking on my door, I could use the freedom they gave me in order to make decisions and become an adult instead of being led by my hand 'till released. They didn't listen to a lot of my music. I doubt that they would have approved of it if they had. But this was part of my private life and helped me become who I am.
When WalMart goes into a little town in the middle of a bunch of little towns and so dominates the market that all the little independent distributers of various wares get put out of business, it hurts the people living in those areas in their freedom of choice.
It's not all bad, and I realize that most people who live/shop around Walmarts are happy with them. But when the choice is driving an hour plus for an alternate outlet, for a teen, it is practically equivalent to gov't censorship. I'm sorry, but kids need to have an outlet. Parents always seem to disprove of their kids music. It's practically a right of kids. And Walmart takes it away.
It's also a shame that so many people are too goddamn lazy to filter the world themselves and look to big corporations or big gov't (Ashcroft, et.al.) to do the job.
Being born in the US, lived 8 years in Europe and 10 years in Asia and now living in the US again, there is no way in hell I would choose most of Europe or Asia over living here. That is just an idiotic, pompous or just ignorant statement. Now there are some countries in central America I wouldn't mind living in....
True freedom and true democracy. Not faked propaganda.
Hmmm, there are so many different ways to attack those two sentences I really don't know where to start. I think that I'll just leave them hanging. I trust the/. crowd to be bright enough to see the internal breakdown of logic.
As far as the topic, soccer. Yep, biggest sport in the world. Reason #1, all you need is a ball. Very easy for kids anywhere to play. Impoverished people (read most of the world) find it about the only thing they can play. But like Tiger Woods deadpanned when asked about World Cup after winning his last trophy,"You got the wrong country." That's about right.
Same thing that all the fuckhead Republicans did to all the dimwit Democratic judicial nominees under Clinton. Don't try to make this something to take sides about. It's just, , sorry about that, governement as usual.
Just block the ports for the p2p. What are the teachers or students going to get all pissed, run up and say,"WTF!? You're phreaking the l33t h4x0r thing we got going! Daaaamn you!" ?
I'm there with you. Well, I thought that the kung fu moves were pretty cool, but the whole sophomoric philosophising got really tired immediately. And I've saw better actors than Keanu at my kids last elementary play.
I may rent the sequel, but I doubt I'll pay theatre prices to go see it.
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Am I the only one wondering how 2 disks failed at the same time? What happened? Power surge and no power strip or ups? I don't really want to point fingers, but the odds of two disks failing at the same time seems really, REALLY, freaking slim. Like if this happens to you, go out and buy a lotto ticket.
I know that this is off topic, but how the hell do I block stories on Apple? I have the box marked in my preferences, but still all these Apple stories come up. Nothing against them, I just don't care. I don't like Apple, I don't like OSX, but I don't care that others do. Please don't take this as a flame. What am I doing wrong with my preferences?? Thanks.
If anyone has ever looked into living off the grid, or trying to get most of their power from solar, wind, bicycle, whatever, you know that the key is to get appliances that use less energy. Not that hard, even given the current US President being in the pocket of the oil companies.
If I typed a word wrong or dropped some clause, I don't really need to hear about it. It doesn't make you sound smart. It makes you sound like an asshole.
Seriously. Four years from now, you will have worked your ass off putting your wife through the PhD program. Having to deal with a lot of shit and being the chief breadwinner. It'll be time for you to take a break. She's got a PhD now, so you can sit back, figure out which beer you like the best, maybe pick up some tennis or something. Trust me, you'll want a break. Then after a year or so announce that your skills are outdated and that you are going to go back and get your own PhD.
Holy Crap! It is so heartwarming to hear someone else having this nightmare with Word. I started to think that it was me. When I had that happen last, a month or so ago, I ended up saving the document as plain text, then reformatting the thing. That didn't even work so well.
Everytime I see one of these stories, I wonder why people don't use alternic. OK, not so much why they don't, just why geeks in position haven't altered their DNS's to see alternic sites. Slow, subtle and once accepted and working, people would be pissed when they couldn't reach sites they were used to seeing. I always thought that the internet was supposed to have strength due to decentralization. Oh yeah, us government needs to control everything around the world. shudder.
Ah see, there you go. Just blowing my arguments out of the water. I'll have to take your word for it, 'cause I don't have the experience to question it.
Back in the day before I ran my own server, it seems like there were always BIG notices about case sensitivity whenever I went to upload. Besides which the listing of a couple thousand files would amount to only a couple 100K at most, I'd think. Yeah, I know that doesn't scale real well, but I'm just thinking of Aunt Polly trying to edit a file that she saved before.
Still, as I said before, I like case sensitivity. If I want to name one file Afile.blah and another AFile.blah, I should be able to.
Bud, if you saw my original quote, I did mention my spotty at best skills. Or shoddy. Whatever. I thought that the discussion was about a user app, like a word processor, looking for a file name with possible mixing of upper/lower case. And sure, scratch the hash and do it on a file by file basis. Same thing. I can grep a pattern from a several thousand long file with no noticeably delay. In psuedo, do this
./*
For each file in
if (lowercase($guessed_name) == lowercase($file))
return $file;
It this brings your system to a grinding halt, you must be running a palm or something. I've seen a lot of stupid shit in my days doing tech support, but I have yet to see a user with even one thousand files in a directory. Even if I did, I don't think that would be even noticeable on the computer. And if it was, it's on the users. If they are so stupid to have multiple thousands of files in a directory AND they can't remember the names that they save things under, fuck 'em.
OK, I'll bite. I'm thinking user apps here. How I'd implement it, is look for the file as input. If not found, make a hash of files in the directory, translating every character in each file name to lower case (or upper, doesn't matter), change the inputted name to the same, then compare. This wouldn't be processor intensive at all. Even is the user had several hundred files in the directory, and was running an old pentium, this would be quick.
In other words, you don't compare every possible mix of upper and lower. You change the cases of the files (in the hash, not actually change the name) and the query name, then compare. Like I said, pretty trivial.
On a personal level, I have no wish to see this.
Bloat? It's like a one liner shell script. And even with my meagre C skills, I could do it in 5 lines. If people really want an app to support people who don't know the difference between upper and lower case, it would be trivial to implement.
Perfect. I was trying to think of a reply to this, then I saw this reply and it fits exactly what I was thinking. Thanks.
drum synths sound better then all but *great* drummers
Damn. That's sad to me. I'd rather listen to any but the worst drummers over a drum machine. Just me I suppose. I like watching live bands though.
But hey, to each their own....
It may be that the original subjects of ESR's essay have been lost in time. Or just that newer readers don't know and have pointed the essay at something else. Eric was basically bitching about RMS back in the day.
Hell, maybe it's been twisted with the years in my head.
lol. This has already way exceeded any thread I've been involved in.
We should have exchanged emails and hashed this out ourselves.
What about the consumer?
Well, that's the good of it. Unless the consumer has a morality that doesn't jibe with that of Walmart. But that is the frindge. I've read a couple reports about how major retailers like Walmart drain municipal budjects and increase the local tax burden on consumers.
Like most things, the more you look into it, the more complex the problem. I know that I'm either not bright enough, or just don't have enough time or energy to say with total conviction that Walmart is either good or bad on the balance.
At least now, you can find Britney Spears singles in Podunk, Utah.
I really want to make a sarcastic comment about this....
Having spent a few months in a small town in the midwest a couple months after a Walmart went in, I was able to see the good and the bad of it. Before the Walmart their were more opportunties for small businessmen.
OK. First, my parent's were hardly hip, modern parents. Liberal, yes, but definitely not the "cool" parents. See, as far as the music goes, and this is what the conversation was kind of about, I listened to many groups, punk, industrial and what came to be labelled goth, that my parents never listened to. They couldn't really get past the noise of it to get to the lyrics. But being raised as I was, I knew that they wouldn't have approved. But they let me have that. If I started using some of the language in daily conversations, I would have been in trouble. But I didn't.
Like the first time I heard Andrew Dice Clay. I laughed my ass off, despite that I knew it was so wrong. Probably because I knew that it was wrong. My parents wouldn't have approved of it, but it hardly turned me into a mysoginistic racist.
And yes, I was talking about censorship and Walmart. When they become effectively the only outlet for music for miles around and don't carry something (that would sell) for purely moral reasons, it comes damn close, in practical terms, to gov't censorship. But like I said, they have the right.
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He went to the annual porn convention in Las Vegas and took a bunch of pictures with different porn stars. He had the film developed at Walmart and was amazed when they didn't print out some of the pictures and left a note saying that Walmart was a family place and his business was not appreciated. We all laughed about it. This is SoCal, so the options for getting film developed, or anything else really, are many. But if they were the only place that you could get your film developed and they wouldn't do it, that would suck.
Like I said a couple times, I think that what Walmart does sucks, but they have that right. It's just a shame that people don't seem to care about having choices.
As far as Simon and Garfunkel, my parents took me and my sister to a Simon and Garfunkel concert in Germany when I was about 10 or 11. I still have great memories of that. While I did have my music, I also listened, and listen to my parents (Stones, Animals, Mamas and Papas, etc.).
I really don't think that we are disagreeing as much as you think.
Please try not to put words out of my hands. My parents would not have approved of my music, but they understood that for me to grow up I would need to start making decisions on my own. One of which is what music I listened too. As I said previously, as long as my grades were good and I wasn't getting into trouble, they gave me a great deal of leniency. It was also true that when I screwed up, I had some freedoms taken away. Hardly disinterested parenting.
But we are off the topic there. If you liked to try an array of different cheeses (after having visited more than my share of stinky cheese shops in France, pulled in against my will by my mom, I find this idea pretty funny. Sorry, I'm just smiling as I write this with those memories) but some mega cheese shop came in and put your favorite cheese shop out of business and now your choice was Cheddar, Swiss or Jack, I think that you'd be a little put out. Not that you'd say the mega cheese shop didn't have the RIGHT to do it, but you'd probably think that it was kinda fucked.
And that's pretty much all that I'm saying about Walmart. I don't think that they are good for local economies, but I don't feel that strongly about them on that level. But I don't like when they are the only game in town (or many towns around) and feel that they have the moral right to censor what local people have access to. Of course they have the legal right. But the fact that they are in a position to dictate morality and do so is pretty fucked. That's all I'm saying. Please don't bring my parenting or my parents parenting into it.
Easy kid. I'm not a teenager. I'm not even in my 20's anymore. And I have a son. It is important to me to keep an eye on what my son watches on TV and at the movies. And how long. I understand that and take the responsibility seriously. But is it a requirement that my "tastes" are the same as the little society that I happen to be stuck in?
I was lucky enough to have parents who understood that as long as I got good grades and the cops weren't knocking on my door, I could use the freedom they gave me in order to make decisions and become an adult instead of being led by my hand 'till released. They didn't listen to a lot of my music. I doubt that they would have approved of it if they had. But this was part of my private life and helped me become who I am.
When WalMart goes into a little town in the middle of a bunch of little towns and so dominates the market that all the little independent distributers of various wares get put out of business, it hurts the people living in those areas in their freedom of choice.
It's not all bad, and I realize that most people who live/shop around Walmarts are happy with them. But when the choice is driving an hour plus for an alternate outlet, for a teen, it is practically equivalent to gov't censorship. I'm sorry, but kids need to have an outlet. Parents always seem to disprove of their kids music. It's practically a right of kids. And Walmart takes it away.
It's also a shame that so many people are too goddamn lazy to filter the world themselves and look to big corporations or big gov't (Ashcroft, et.al.) to do the job.
Being born in the US, lived 8 years in Europe and 10 years in Asia and now living in the US again, there is no way in hell I would choose most of Europe or Asia over living here. That is just an idiotic, pompous or just ignorant statement. Now there are some countries in central America I wouldn't mind living in....
/. crowd to be bright enough to see the internal breakdown of logic.
True freedom and true democracy. Not faked propaganda.
Hmmm, there are so many different ways to attack those two sentences I really don't know where to start. I think that I'll just leave them hanging. I trust the
As far as the topic, soccer. Yep, biggest sport in the world. Reason #1, all you need is a ball. Very easy for kids anywhere to play. Impoverished people (read most of the world) find it about the only thing they can play. But like Tiger Woods deadpanned when asked about World Cup after winning his last trophy,"You got the wrong country." That's about right.
Same thing that all the fuckhead Republicans did to all the dimwit Democratic judicial nominees under Clinton. Don't try to make this something to take sides about. It's just, , sorry about that, governement as usual.
Just block the ports for the p2p. What are the teachers or students going to get all pissed, run up and say,"WTF!? You're phreaking the l33t h4x0r thing we got going! Daaaamn you!" ?
I'm there with you. Well, I thought that the kung fu moves were pretty cool, but the whole sophomoric philosophising got really tired immediately. And I've saw better actors than Keanu at my kids last elementary play.
I may rent the sequel, but I doubt I'll pay theatre prices to go see it.
Are they living in a boat? Great surfing at Todos, although I haven't been there in about 6 years.